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HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I hope that Amendment 180 will be much simpler, because is a bit niche and, dare I say it, anoraky in nature, for which I apologise. It would amend Clause 27 by removing…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response and thank noble Lords for all the contributions to the debate on this amendment. On Amendment 172 and the expenditure cap, the Minister…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for this debate and the Minister for her response. While my amendment was anoraky by nature, I think we would all agree that the other amendments tabled by my…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 173A in the name of my noble friend Lord Moynihan and Amendment 173B in the name of my noble friend Lord Hayward. The amendments in this…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I will sum up on a couple of new points. I always welcome comments from the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, because his forensic brain is really helpful in making sure we get to the…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, just to be clear for the record, no law was passed in this instance. In a matter of days the clubs quickly withdrew from the competition because, as my noble friend…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]This goes to the principle of the redistribution amendments in the group. We have had two debates on this; I hope this will be the hat trick, so to speak, because it is talking…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I hope we can move constructively on this point. I welcome the Minister’s undertaking to give clubs as much time as they request. I appreciate the amount of time the Minister has…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank noble Lords for their contribution to this debate, and again I thank the Minister for her response. I noticed that she went into the detail of the backstop mechanism but I…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]It may be that it should be a matter of fact and we can find out one way or the other. The question is: how much consultation has happened specifically on the parachute payments?…18 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contribution, including the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for his helpful suggestions. Having some certainty on the timeframe is quite…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]In speaking to my Amendment 332, I will follow the words of some other noble Lords and say that I find it quite confusing that we have so many disparate amendments grouped…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I hope noble Lords will see this as another constructive measure that is in keeping with many of the issues on which there has been broad consensus in the Committee. The principle…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I rise to speak to my Amendment 173, but first I echo the words of many other noble Lords. I support the outcomes-based approach the noble Lord, Lord Wood, is trying to achieve…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the noble Lord. Of course, we want to have the flexibility to react to such situations. This issue comes up in various other contexts, such as government statements. There…16 Dec 2024HANSARDFootball Governance Bill [HL]I thank the Minister for her response. The main thing is not only having a sensible conversation but making sure that the regulator is aware that, where there are circumstances in…16 Dec 2024